Andreas Schleicher, director for Education and Skills at the OECD, answered questions from Expresso about the impact of new technologies on education. Schleicher warned that the introduction of new technologies in classrooms without evidence of their impact represents a significant problem for the education system.
The OECD education official expressed particular concern about the use of artificial intelligence in the school context. He emphasized that students do not learn simply by having access to immediate answers, a phenomenon that can seriously compromise students' learning.
The warning comes within the framework of PISA data, the international student assessment program. Schleicher central message is that technology, when used inappropriately and without pedagogical criteria, can replace students' autonomous reasoning instead of enhancing it, thus harming the learning process.
